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High-order harmonic generation (HHG) in solids has emerged as a versatile platform for exploring ultrafast and quantum-coherent phenomena in condensed matter. Recent advances reveal Berry-phase and topological effects in harmonic emission,…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-20 Marcelo F. Ciappina

Selective enhancement (>10^3) of harmonics extending to the water window (~4nm) generated in an argon gas filled straight bore capillary waveguide is demonstrated. This enhancement is in good agreement with modeling which indicates that…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Zepf , B. Dromey , M. Landreman , P. Foster , S. M. Hooker

We analyze phase matching with reference to frequency doubling in nanosized quadratic waveguides encompassing form birefringence and supporting cross-polarized fundamental and second-harmonic modes. In an AlGaAs rod with an air void, we…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Andrea Di Falco , Claudio Conti , Gaetano Assanto

Phase matching is essential for efficient energy transfer in nonlinear wave-mixing processes. Traditional methods, such as birefringent and quasi-phase matching, have remained conceptually unchanged since their discovery over 60 years ago,…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-23 Danielle Ben-Haim , Mai Tal , Xiaoxi Xu , Tal Ellenbogen

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is combined with resonant x-ray excitation of a core electron into the transient valence vacancy that is created in the course of the HHG process. To describe this setting, I develop a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-10-15 Christian Buth

We investigate High-harmonic generation (HHG) in a dimerized Kitaev chain. The dimerization in the model is introduced through a site-dependent modulating potential, determined by a parameter $\lambda \in [-1:1]$. This parameter also…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-06-06 Nivash R. , S. Srinidhi , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay , Amol R. Holkundkar

We develop a quasi-classical theory of high harmonic generation in semiconductors based on an interband current that has been transformed from Bloch to Wannier basis. The Wannier quasi-classical approach reveals a complete picture of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Andrew M. Parks , Guilmot Ernotte , Adam Thorpe , Chris R. McDonald , Paul B. Corkum , Marco Taucer , Thomas Brabec

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a manifestation of the strongly nonlinear response of matter to intense laser fields and has, as the basis for coherent XUV sources a variety of applications. Recently, HHG from atoms in a phase and…

Optics · Physics 2020-05-20 Jonas Wätzel , Jamal Berakdar

We study theoretically and experimentally High Harmonic Generation (HHG) using two non collinear driving fields focused in gases. We show that these two fields form a non stationary blazed active grating in the generation medium. The…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-13 C. Chappuis , D. Bresteau , T. Auguste , O. Gobert , T. Ruchon

Resonant structures in modern nanophotonics are non-Hermitian (leaky and lossy), and support quasinormal modes. Moreover, contemporary cavities frequently include 2D materials to exploit and resonantly enhance their nonlinear properties or…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Thomas Christopoulos , Emmanouil E. Kriezis , Odysseas Tsilipakos

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a scheme allowing to reach noncollinear phase-matching of high harmonic generation in solids, which may potentially lead to an enhancement of the generation efficiency. The principle is based on…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-24 Pavel Peterka , František Trojánek , Petr Malý , Martin Kozák

High harmonic generation (HHG) is a powerful probe of electron dynamics on attosecond to femtosecond timescales and has been successfully used to detect electronic and structural changes in solid-state quantum materials, including…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-21 Daniel A. Rehn , Towfiq Ahmed , Jinkyoung Yoo , Rohit Prasankumar , Jian-Xin Zhu

High-harmonic generation (HHG) in the two topological phases of a finite, one-dimensional, periodic structure is investigated using a self-consistent time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) approach. For harmonic photon energies…

Optics · Physics 2018-04-26 Dieter Bauer , Kenneth K. Hansen

We investigate high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in graphene with a quantum master equation approach. The simulations reproduce the observed enhancement in HHG in graphene under elliptically polarized light [N. Yoshikawa et al, Science…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-03 Shunsuke A. Sato , Hideki Hirori , Yasuyuki Sanari , Yoshihiko Kanemitsu , Angel Rubio

We study numerically the Bloch electron wave-packet dynamics in periodic potentials to simulate laser-solid interactions. We introduce a quasi-classical model in the \emph{k} space combined with the energy band structure to understand the…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-05 Tao-Yuan Du , Xue-Bin Bian

We theoretically study high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from solid-phase systems in spatially inhomogeneous strong laser fields originated by resonant plasmons within a metallic nanostructure. The intensity of the second plateau in HHG…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-12 Tao-Yuan Du , Zhong Guan , Xiao-Xin Zhou , Xue-Bin Bian

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) with relativistically strong laser pulses is considered employing electron ionization-recollisions from multiply charged ions in counterpropagating, linearly polarized attosecond pulse trains. The…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Markus C. Kohler , Michael Klaiber , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel

By employing the exact diagonalization method, we investigate the high-harmonic generation (HHG) of the correlated systems under the strong laser irradiation. For the extended Hubbard model on a periodic chain, HHG close to the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-03-07 Can Shao , Hantao Lu , Xiao Zhang , Chao Yu , Takami Tohyama , Ruifeng Lu

High harmonic generation (HHG) has become a multipurpose source of coherent XUV radiation used in various applications. One of the notable aspects of HHG is its wide spectrum consisting of many harmonic orders. This might represent a…

In the past two decades high-harmonic generation (HHG) has become a key process in ultra-fast science due to the extremely short time-structure of the underlying electron dynamics being imprinted in the emitted harmonic light bursts. After…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-01-25 Markus C. Kohler , Thomas Pfeifer , Karen Z. Hatsagortsyan , Christoph H. Keitel